Seventeen Carat Quotes

#1. My first venture was to trade bicycle parts and hosiery yarn. The initial days proved to be difficult, and I earned very little from my business. But I kept at it. Each day, when I retired for the night, I told myself that money would come in the next day.

Sunil Mittal

#2. The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde.

Ed Benguiat

#3. Refurbished that image of herself in other minds which was her only notion of self-seeing

Edith Wharton

#4. Starving for a high, a place to hang out inside my own head. Starving for touch. Pain, even. A way to feel. I need to feel.

Ellen Hopkins

#5. IT WAS ONE of those midsummer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, I drank too much last night.

John Cheever

#6. I would rather live a joyful simple life, doing what I love, than to be unhappy and rich.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. A good education should leave much to be desired.

Alan Gregg

#8. I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth."
"How can you be sure?"
"Because she'd do the same for you.

Rick Riordan

#9. Most of us think we can hide our weaknesses from the world, and sometimes, we're right. But only if we're very very strong.

Brian K. Vaughan

#10. You can add some class to it by sealing it with wax. This makes me feel like I'm a Baron sending a letter to the Duchess. Look at that sophistication.

Dan Bergstein

#11. Menders of all times and places have taught that silencing the thoughts in our heads and opening to the experience of the body and emotions is the basis of all healing. It's the only means by which we can reclaim our true nature or feel the subtle cues telling us how to find our way through life.

Martha N. Beck